Place Based Education
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New Pathways
Do You Know Who Your Students Know? Better Data on Students’ Networks Can Start the School Year off Right
[…] hopes and dreams conferences, and the like as teachers set out to get to know their students and to help students get to know one another. But before schools set to work on building new relationships, they should also pay attention to the relationships their students do and don’t already have. New data suggests that […]
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Learning Design
Climate at the Apex of Education Re-Design
[…] Johns Hopkins University. This same day, Harvard C-Change partnered with Putney Pre-College, to release a no-cost, five-part on-line series of lessons exploring connections between climate change and public health. Teachers and students were invited to engage in issues specific but not limited to the situation posed by COVID-19. “The ability to turn climate change […]
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Future of Learning
4 Tiers Of Showcasing Student Work
In my last year of being a high school principal, I was reminded once again about the power of taking student work public. Then high school senior Destiny Anger – who later graduated from UC Santa Cruz and is now a Customer Relationship Manager and Marketing Specialist in the San Francisco Bay Area – […]
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New Pathways
Students Co-authoring Their Own Learning
[…] School in suburban Kansas City, Kan. The Innovation Academy creates opportunities for learners to pick problems worth solving, develop a plan, conduct a project and present a public product. Teachers help learners build project plans that will develop and demonstrate important skills and share rubrics that describe a quality work product. Launched in 2020 […]
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Equity & Access
Preparing to Reopen: Six Principles That Put Equity at the Core
By: E. Tucker and L. Kruse. The authors address some of the challenges facing schools trying to make an equitable reopening plan, particularly keeping in mind students with disabilities.
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Getting Through
An Opportunity to Disrupt Education for the Better: Lessons From Starting a School in a Pandemic
[…] robustly developing and offering in-person, blended, and online learning programs, we put more tools into our teachers’ instructional tool belt while providing maximum flexibility. Emphasize Empathy The current public health and economic crisis, along with the racial and social justice issues at the forefront of national conversation, strengthens the case for empathy as a core […]
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Leadership
Striving Toward a Better Accountability System
[…] a community-based accountability system that is rigorous and student and classroom centered. For the past several years, I have had the privilege to work alongside 50 other public school districts in Texas to develop a grass-roots Community Based Accountability System (CBAS) where every child is valued and respected and schools can be evaluated beyond […]
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Equity & Access
Equity and ESSER: Why You Should Prioritize Supporting Students With Disabilities With Your Federal COVID Relief Dollars
[…] LAB), we serve all learners and prioritize those who are historically underserved in our school system, especially students with disabilities. At Brooklyn LAB, we’ve learned that when schools prioritize the students most at the margins they can create an equitable school community. Federal COVID-19 relief funds offer a historic moment for America to create schools […]
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Equity & Access
Designing at the Margins
[…] for them to design those solutions themselves. We are encouraged by efforts like Moonshot edVentures’ fellowship program for diverse leaders ready to start a new school in Denver and Building Excellent Schools’ fellowship programs for established school leaders ready to start their own school. But we also want to encourage more parents, educators, community […]
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Competency-Based Education
Change Management at Harmony Public Schools: When Prior Innovations Become Status Quo
By: Burak Yilmaz. Through the development of a competency-based microcredential system, Harmony Public Schools has become a place where all educators with a growth mindset can thrive.
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